Wednesday MidDay Medley
TEN to NOON Wednesdays – Streaming at KKFI.org
90.1 FM KKFI – Kansas City Community Radio
Produced and Hosted by Mark Manning

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Mike McCoy, Mark Reynolds, Bernie Dugan, Lyle Wells of Cher UK
& Matt Kesler of The Pedaljets
+ Andrew Erdrich of Sneaky Creeps

1. Todd Snider – “Conservative Christian, Right-Wing Republican,
Straight White, American Males”
from: East Nashville Skyline / Oh Boy! Records / July 20, 2004
[From Todd Snider’s 7th release of 2004. This year Todd’s 15th release: Agnostic Hyms & Stoner Fables, came out.]

[Todd Snider, plays Knuckleheads, Tuesday, October 23, with Amanda Shires.]

2. Kasey Rausch – “Live How You Love”
from: Live How You Love / Rausch House / July 1, 2007
[January 2 on WMM we’ll present “The Rausch House of Music” with Kasey and Kim Rausch, their daughters, and songs from the grandparents and cousins.]

[Kasey Rausch with Mikal Shariro perform as Partners in Glory, at The Brick, Thursday, October 18, with Victor and Penny.]

3. Iris DeMent – “Livin’ On The Inside”
from: Sing The Delta / Flariella / Oct. 2, 2012
[Iris Dement previewed many of her new songs when she was in concert with husband Greg Brown, last year for their 11-11-11 show at The Folly Theatre to benefit St. Mark Child and Family Development Center. Now those songs are part of her brand new release that includes a total of 12 new songs. It is her first full-length release of original songs since 1996. Iris was our guest on last week’s WMM.]

10:15

4. Dollar Fox – “The Letter”
from: Little Mother’s Things I Am Keeping / Money Wolf Music / Oct. 27, 2012
(This song is on the Midwestern Audio Vol. 1 compilation)
[Recorded by Patrick Meager at Fuzz Bomb. Produced by Meger and Dollar Fox. Mastered by Duane Trower at Weights & Measures Soundlab. 7th release from Money Wolf Music. Dollar Fox is Tommy Donoho, Justin Penney, Nick Dothage, Ethan Taylor, Ryan Watkins. Tommy Donoho will be with us next week on WMM.]

[Dollar Fox plays CODA, Friday, October 19 with The Peculiar Pretzelmen and The Latenight Callers.]

[Dollar Fox plays recordBar on Saturday, October 27 from 7:00 to 9:00 with a CD Release concert.]

5. The Cave Girls – “I Wanna See The Band”
from: The Cave Girls / Cave Out Records / Feb 4, 2012
[TCG played LIVE on our April 18 WMM. The Cave Girls (Robin Campbell, Sara Teasley, & Stephanie Williams) debut release was produced by Pat Tomek at Largely Studios in KC. The Cave Girls were recently named by The Pitch as Best Sexy Musicians.]

[The Cave Girls play recordBar on Saturday, October 20 with The Empty Spaces and Mad Spirits]

6. Pedaljets – “Tangled Up”
from: from their studio recordings / Independent / To be release in 2013
[KC’s very own Pedaljets have regrouped and now include respected sound engineer and producer Paul Malinowski who has replaced long time lead guitarist Phil Wade (of The Wilders). Malinowski joins drummer Rob Morrow, frontman Mike Allmayer and bassist Matt Kesler. The band is working on all new material in the first album of new Pedaljets songs, in over 20 years.]

[The Pedajets play Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club on Sat, Oct. 20 w/ Cher UK and Hot Dog Skeletons]

7. Cher UK – “Peace, Love & Fun in The Sun”
from: Little Blue Soldier / Independent / October 20, 2012]

[Cher UK play Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club on Sat, Oct. 20 w/ The Pedajets and Hot Dog Skeletons]

10:30 – Interview with Mike McCoy, Mark Reynolds, Bernie Dugan, Lyle Wells, and Matt Kesler

Mike McCoy grew up in Hutchinson, Kansas. In the early 1990s his band Cher U.K. filled venues in Kansas City with their their music playing with popular themes in punk rock music. Mike McCoy, now lives in Austin Texas and fronts his band the Service Industry. Mike is the founder of The North vs. South Music Festival. This Saturday night, October 20, Cher UK play Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club on Sat, Oct. 20 w/ The Pedajets and Hot Dog Skeletons.

Mike McCoy, Mark Reynolds, talked about the early days of Cher UK and the local music scene.

The band was originally called Cher. Many of their first recordings were released on cassette, the band went through several line-up changes and the band’s name changed to Cher UK.

Mike McCoy talked about his love of metaphor in music and the inspirations Cher UK’s new songs for their new EP.

10:38

8. Cher UK – “Little Blue Soldier”
from: Little Blue Soldier / Independent / October 20, 2012

[Cher UK play Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club on Sat, Oct. 20 w/ The Pedajets and Hot Dog Skeletons]

10:42

Mike McCoy talked about the contributions of Mike Stover on guitar for the new recordings and the musicianship of Kyle Dahlquist who contributed on horns.

In 2004 Mike McCoy founded the North vs. South Music Festival, as you call is a bi-annual, bi-polar music festival designed to showcase independent rock along the I-35 corridor. This festival has grown each year.

Matt Kessler discussed the new recordings of The Pedaljets and how the band will release a single in December and their new full length record on vinyl in 2013.

10:53

9. Cher UK – “Reagan VS. Nola”
from: Little Blue Soldier / Independent / October 20, 2012

[Cher UK play Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club on Sat, Oct. 20 w/ The Pedajets and Hot Dog Skeletons]

10. The Grisly Hand – “Thinking About You”
from: Western Avenue / Independent / February 1, 2012
[Cover of Radiohead song. The band is working on a new full length recording.]

[The Grisly Hand play The Riot Room Tonight, Oct. 17, Hudson Falcons, and Clearway 51.]

[Lauren Krum plays the Take Five Coffee bar, 5336 West 151st Street, in Leawood KS. on October 27, Lauren will be joined by her Grisly Hand band mate Mike Stover (guitar), as well as TJ Martley (piano), Bryan McGuire (bass) and Matt Leifer (drums).]

11:00 – Guest Produers / Co-Hosts: Sneaky Creeps

Sneaky Creeps were originally formed by Artists: Max Crutcher, Andy Erdrich and Andy Davis, who met while attending to KCAI. Andy Davis moved away, making the Sneaky Creeps a duo of Max Crutcher on Drums and Yell/Talk, and Andrew Erdrich on Guitar and Yell/Talk. Sneaky Creeps EP, “The Thin Man Wigs Out” is available at: sneakycreeps.bandcamp.com.

Sneaky Creeps were last with us as Guest Produers / Co-Hosts, on WMM on June 13 when Max joined us live in the studio, and Andrew joined us by phone from Indianapolis, where he was working on an installation.

For today’s show Andrew Erdrich joined us live in the studio. Andrew is a graduate of The Kansas City Art Institute, who with Sean Starowitz, founded: BREAD! KC, an art project that celebrated their 2nd year of creating funding for local artists by hosting a dinner, where for a $10 donation, diners are served a bowl of fresh soup, fresh baked bread, and a ballot. Three different creative projects are presented, and diners vote for one to receive the money collected from the evening. In under a year, BREAD! KC has awarded over many thousands in micro-grants to area writers, gardeners, bands and artists. Andrew Erdrich has also been part of the Urban Culture Project and works at Vahalla Press.

For more info about Bread KC! – breadkc.wordpress.com

11:00

11. Beat Happening – “Tiger Trap”
from: You Turn Me On / K Records – Sub Pop / 1992
[indie pop and punk rock band formed in Olympia, Washington in 1982. Calvin Johnson, Heather Lewis and Bret Lunsford have been the band’s continual members. Beat Happening were early leaders in the American indie pop and lo-fi movements, noted for their use of primitive recording techniques, disregard for the technical aspects of musicianship. You Turn Me On is the 5th and last album, released in 1992. It is often considered as their best.]

12. Hamza El Din – Greeting Card”
from: Al Oud / Vanguard / 1965
[Born in the village of Toshka, in southern Egypt, he was originally trained to be an electrical engineer. After working in Cairo for the Egyptian national railroad, El Din changed direction and began to study music at the Cairo University, and traveled in Egypt on a government grant collecting folksongs. His performances attracted the attention of the Grateful Dead, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan in the 1960s, which led to a recording contract and to his eventual emigration to the United States.]

13. Wevie Stonder – “Gamilnutbike”
from: Drawing On Other People’s Head / Skam / 2002
[ an absurdist electronic music collective.Their name is a spoonerism of the name of musician Stevie Wonder]

14. Poor Lord – “Another Fight”
from: Randomniscity / Independent Release / 2011
[Tulsa Oklahoma band]

11:19 – Underwriting

11:20

15. Gastr Del Sol – “Blues Subtitled No Sense Of Wonder”
from: Camoufleur / Drag City / 1998
[Chicago band consisting, for most of their career, of David Grubbs and Jim O’Rourke. Between 1993 and 1998 they put out seven albums. Grubbs, a former member of Squirrel Bait and Bastro, formed the band in Chicago in 1991. They released their first album, The Serpentine Similar, in 1993. This early lineup saw Grubbs joined by Bundy K. Brown and John McEntire, both members of Bastro’s final incarnation, on bass guitar and drums respectively. In 1994 Brown and McEntire left to join Tortoise and guitarist, composer and producer Jim O’Rourke joined.]

16. John Fahey – “Poor Boy”
from: Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death / Tacoma / 1965
[Born February 28, 1939 – Died February 22, 2001. American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who played the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument. His style has been greatly influential and has been described as the foundation of American Primitivism, a term borrowed from painting and referring mainly to the self-taught nature of the music and its minimalist style. Fahey borrowed from the folk and blues traditions in American roots music, having compiled many forgotten early recordings in these genres. He would later incorporate classical, Portuguese, Brazilian, and Indian music into his sound. Fahey spent many of his later years in poverty and poor health, but enjoyed a minor career resurgence with a turn towards the more explicitly avant-garde, and created a series of abstract paintings during the last years of his life. He died in 2001 due to complications from heart surgery. In 2003, he was ranked 35th in the Rolling Stone “The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” list.]

17. Singer – “Please Tell the Justices We’re Fine”
from: Unhistories / Drag City / 2008

18. D. Vassalotti – “L’Ange De L’Assassinat”
from: Book of Ghosts / Vinyl Rites / 2012

19. Television – “Marquee Moon”
from: Marquee Moon / Elektra /1977
[American rock band, formed in New York City in 1973. They are best known for the album Marquee Moon, their debut studio album from 1977. They have been credited as highly influential on guitar based post-punk. Part of the early 1970s New York underground rock scene, with the Patti Smith Group, The Ramones, Blondie, Richard Hell and The Voidoids, and Talking Heads. In contrast to the Ramones’ rock ‘n’ roll minimalism, Television’s music was more complex and more technically proficient, defined by guitarists Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd. While critically acclaimed at the time of its release, the album failed to garner commercial success. Marquee Moon has since been cited by numerous publications as one of the greatest albums ever made.]

11:59:30

20. Noel Coward – “The Party’s Over Now”
from: Noel Coward in New York / drg / 2003 [orig. 1957]

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